The year 2017 represents my 55nd year as an occasional inventor, whimsicalist and possibilitist. Though creating invention-themed cartoons has been for me nothing more than a sideline business, I’ve never stopped amusing myself by tinkering with ideas for plausible or outrageous products, or by trying to anticipate future trends and inventions. Sometimes I have actually foreseen a trend, as in 1975 when I drew pre-torn clothing, or in 1992 when I drew a product similar to Google Glass, long before others came up with the same idea. Many of my 1991 predictions in Public Therapy Buses have come true. Many have not. Some are yet to come true, thereby shocking the world.

1962: Portable Fallout Shelter (Cuban Missile Crisis)

CELEBRATING 55 YEARS OF DRAWING CLEVERLY-CONCEIVED NONSENSE PRODUCTS

2012: “Pigstop Restaurant and Charge,” Txchnologist.com

1992: Prediction: Computer screens will be visible to the eye inside a pair of glasses. Desktop magazine.

1975: Prediction: Business clothing in the future will be sold pre-ripped–Have Fun Inventing